This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs: Fix rw_hint validation
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fs-fix-rw_hint-validation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fd80030b30f910cd9573b5fcc2c99ffbbb535ae9
Author: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 2 12:39:20 2024 -0800
fs: Fix rw_hint validation
[ Upstream commit ec16b147a55bfa14e858234eb7b1a7c8e7cd5021 ]
Reject values that are valid rw_hints after truncation but not before
truncation by passing an untruncated value to rw_hint_valid().
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 5657cb0797c4 ("fs/fcntl: use copy_to/from_user() for u64 types")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202203926.2478590-2-bvanassche@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index c80a6acad742f..3ff707bf2743a 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int f_getowner_uids(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
}
#endif
-static bool rw_hint_valid(enum rw_hint hint)
+static bool rw_hint_valid(u64 hint)
{
switch (hint) {
case RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET:
@@ -288,19 +288,17 @@ static long fcntl_rw_hint(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
{
struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
u64 __user *argp = (u64 __user *)arg;
- enum rw_hint hint;
- u64 h;
+ u64 hint;
switch (cmd) {
case F_GET_RW_HINT:
- h = inode->i_write_hint;
- if (copy_to_user(argp, &h, sizeof(*argp)))
+ hint = inode->i_write_hint;
+ if (copy_to_user(argp, &hint, sizeof(*argp)))
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
case F_SET_RW_HINT:
- if (copy_from_user(&h, argp, sizeof(h)))
+ if (copy_from_user(&hint, argp, sizeof(hint)))
return -EFAULT;
- hint = (enum rw_hint) h;
if (!rw_hint_valid(hint))
return -EINVAL;
